In the United States, more than 1.2 million people with mental illness are incarcerated in jails or prisons, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. People with mental illnesses also are on probation or parole at two to four times the rate for the general population. In addition...
Although no significant correlation was found between the measures of attention problems and criminality, inattention was found to be overrepresented in the forensic mental health patients compared to the base rate in the general population.doi:10.1080/15228932.2013.817888Zhu, Na...
These differences appear to be because 1 site, an outpatient clinic located in a large hospital with many Hispanic and female clients, had a high rate of “no-shows.” We reanalyzed refusal rates after omitting this site from the calculation; we found no significant differences by sex or ...
Pennsylvania’s high recidivism rate is in line with national figures. About 66% of prisoners released in 2008 were arrested within three years, and 82% within 10 years, according to a2021 reportfrom the Bureau of Justice Statistics that pulled data from 24 states. Not all of those arrests ...
Girls below the age of 18 reported 301 crime cases with a -10.4 % crime rate compared to the previous year. Similarly, women in the other age groups reported the following number of cases and a change in the total number compared to the previous year. 18 years to 29 years: 783 (7.4%...
While the findings on occupational status and household income are somewhat equivocal, the data show a strikingly higher rate of criminal victimization among the unemployed for a number of types of crime. The unemployed, spending a large...
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The rates of criminal convictions are compared with those in a control sample representative of non-schizophrenic mental disorders matched for age, sex and period. The results show that women with schizophrenia have an increased rate of offending across all offence categories (rate ratio = 3.3...
As an older citizen, I am very apprehensive of the future in light of the present crime rate. We a murders regularly, we have uncontrolled youth committing burglaries and ram raid thefts I grew up in this country in the 40’s and 50’s when we had very little crime, and murders were...
To compare the crime rate of schizophrenics with that of the general population, data from the Central Swedish Police Register on 790 schizophrenic patients discharged from hospitals in Stockholm in 1971 was analysed for the period 1972–86. Relative risk of criminal offence was assessed by comparin...